Crashed aircraft's black box found: Officials

KATHMANDU, Aug 31: Officials are almost certain that an object recovered on Tuesday from the site of the August 24 crash of a Dornier aircraft is its Flight Data Recorder, or black box. But they doubt whether another object, also recovered from the site, is the aircraft´s Cockpit Voice Recorder.



“Local police reported to us that an object was recovered from beneath the crater left by the crash. We are almost certain that it is the aircraft´s black box,” said Suresh Acharya, spokesperson for a committee formed by the government to probe the crash. [break]



The serial number of the object, its color and shape match that of the aircraft´s black box.



“Though we have been informed that both the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder have the same serial number, we are sure from the shape and color reported by local police that the object cannot be the latter,” Acharya said, adding, “A team of experts that is likely to fly to the district on Wednesday will confirm whether it is indeed the black box.”



Meanwhile, it is unclear whether another object recovered from the crash site on Tuesday is the Cockpit Voice Recorder. By the time this report was filed, the committee was still waiting for details.



Both the objects were found by a police team that was carrying out excavation at the crash site, according to Makawanpur´s Superintendent of Police Ram Prasad Shrestha.



“One of the objects is orange in color and weighs about five kilograms. Another, which weighs around eight kilograms, has been slightly damaged by the impact of the crash,” Shrestha told myrepublica.com.



According to Shrestha, the objects were found at around 5 pm.

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